Obstetrics

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Tertiary Care Services: Waikato Women’s Health is the tertiary referral centre for the Midland Region. We offer maternity and obstetric service which provides facilities and specialist care for local and regional patients requiring elective or emergency treatments.

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Secondary Care Services: We provide secondary services for the Waikato DHB area with more than 3,700 deliveries per annum. We are Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative accredited and we have a breast feeding rate of between 80-90% on discharge.

Our team comprises of:

Clinical unit leader
Clinical midwifery managers and specialised nursing and midwifery Staff Nurses
Lactation Consultants
12 consultant positions
Clinical midwife director
10 registrar positions – 6 training positions
7 SHO positions

(The above posts are shared across the obstetrics and gynaecology services)

Labour and Delivery

Our recently refurbished delivery suite has seven delivery rooms, an operating theatre, a three-bedded recovery area and a two-bedded high dependency unit.

Women's Assessment Unit (WAU)

10 bed unit open 24 hours a day and is adjacent to the delivery suite. The unit provides acute services to women of greater than 20 weeks gestation who require urgent care or need to be seen within 24 hours.

Antenatal Care

We have a 24 bedded antenatal/gynaecological ward providing treatment for women requiring medical care. Combined medical and obstetric treatment is available in the Diabetic antenatal clinics.

Antenatal Outpatients

We provide outpatient assessment for pregnant women, Monday to Friday, 8am - 4pm. We are able to provide service for approximately 250 patients a week

Postnatal Care

We have a 20 bedded postnatal ward which mainly caters for high acuity women and their babies. Women and babies who are well are encouraged to have their postnatal stay in one of our 11 primary birthing centres

Breastfeeding

Waikato Hospital is a Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) accredited facility. Lactation Consultants attend to inpatient breastfeeding women and their babies and also facilitate an outpatient lactation clinic in the community for breast feeding at Plunket central.

The breastfeeding service strives to be experts in its field and dedicate its self to helping women and their babies overcome breastfeeding challenges.

Advice and information is also given to other health professionals from careplans for common challenges like plugged ducts and mastitis to drug medication enquiries. The service adopts evidence based research practice models and connects with the global professional Lactation Consultants network.